Canyon Concert Ballet currently has two Jazz 1 classes, taught by Ms Cassie and Ms Jacqueline. Learn more about this fun dance class!

Class Description: Students will be exposed to basic jazz dance technique and its fundamentals. This class will include the following structure: a warm up (body isolations, stretching, proper posture, and lower body movements). Across the floor will introduce students to jazz step sequences and traveling movements that will build their dance vocabulary. At the end of class students will learn a short piece of choreography to build on their memorization and performing skills. This is a 2 year level and is equivalent to students in Ballet 3.

What is your favorite part about this class?

Ms Cassie: My favorite part of this class is being able to loosen up and expose dancers to express a more fun, sassy attitude while dancing.

Which song is your favorite to dance to in this class?

Ms Cassie: My favorite song in my Jazz 1 playlist is San Francisco by The Mogli’s because it is upbeat yet lighthearted.

How long have you been teaching dance?

Ms Cassie: I began as a teachers assistant in high school and have been teaching my own classes for almost a year now.

Anything else you’d like people to know about this class?

Ms Cassie: I would like people to know that jazz is an amazing style of dance for self-expression and freedom while also building technique, strength, and flexibility! Whenever I took jazz at my studio when I was younger a more confident version of myself came out which was very important being that I was very shy and I hope I can bring that out in my students as well.

Jazz 1 happens Tuesdays at 4:30pm at the Conifer Studio with Ms Jacqueline and Wednesdays at 4:30pm at the Harmony Studio with Ms Cassie. Register for Jazz 1 class today!

The Nutcracker follows a young girl, Clara, through her adventures on Christmas Eve during a party visited by her mysterious Uncle Drosselmeyer. Life size dolls and toy soldiers create an evening that grows even more fantastical as she falls asleep and witnesses toy soldiers battling mice and rats. A journey through the Land of Snow leads her to a world led by the Sugar Plum Fairy and her Cavalier, and filled with dancing candies and sweets performing for her and her soldier prince.

“We are so excited to present The Nutcracker once again for the Northern Colorado community”, says executive director, Jenna Riedi, “And in addition to our usual fabulous weekend of performances, we are including two additional opportunities to enjoy and celebrate this amazing holiday tradition: an abbreviated Nutcracker for those looking for a shorter experience, and a Nutcracker Tea!”

Canyon Concert Ballet Presents: 37th Annual The Nutcracker

Lincoln Center Main Stage

Friday, December 7, 2018 at 7pm
Saturday, December 8, 2018 at 2pm and at 7pm
Sunday, December 9 at 1pm and at 6pm

Tickets: $28 – $35

Canyon Concert Ballet presents their 37th annual production of The Nutcracker ballet. With a dazzling score by Tchaikovsky performed by the Fort Collins Symphony Orchestra, this is a rare chance to see a classical ballet accompanied by a live, full orchestra in Fort Collins. This iconic holiday story is sure to please audiences of all ages with mystery, battles, and beautiful ballerinas in sparkling tutus. In addition to the Fort Collins Symphony, Canyon Concert Ballet also welcomes guest artists to play the Sugar Plum and her Cavalier.

In additional to the full production, Canyon Concert Ballet has added two exciting new opportunities around this fabulous holiday tradition:

Educational The Nutcracker Matinees

Lincoln Center Main Stage

Saturday, December 1, 2018 at 11am and at 2pm

Tickets: $15 – $20

Experience The Nutcracker in one hour in these condensed matinee shows for the young and young at heart! These performances are perfect for young families, those who have never experienced a ballet production before, and anyone who would enjoy a shorter show that still tells the beautiful story of Clara and her Nutcracker! Please note, these shows will not feature the Fort Collins Symphony Orchestra.

Canyon Concert Ballet Presents: The Nutcracker Tea

Lincoln Center Columbine Room

Saturday, December 8 from 12:30-1:30pm

Tickets: $20 – $25

Enjoy an afternoon High Tea with music, photos with Nutcracker dancers, prize drawings, and of course and assortment of pastries, fruit, cakes, and wonderful teas provided by Happy Lucky’s Teahouse. Guests are encouraged to dress up and bring their favorite doll to join them. Bundle with The Nutcracker performance at 2pm for a discount!

We have an opportunity to take master classes from Kelly Ireland on Sunday, October 21st. At Canyon Concert Ballet we continue to strive to bring you both renowned and up and coming artists to nurture your study and growth of dance. Ms. Ireland is traveling across the US doing dance research and she is delighting us with stopping in Fort Collins.

To ensure we have enough dancers for class we will have a Pre- Registration. We will offer an Advance 2 hour master class for levels 7+ for $20 and an Intermediate 1.5 hour master class for levels 5 & 6 for $15. To pre-register please email info-at-ccballet.org with your name and informing us that you would like attend. A $10 charge will be added to your account to hold your spot and that will go towards the full amount of class. If we are low in numbers the $10 hold fee will be taken off your account.

Sunday, October 21, 2018

2:30- 4:30pm Advance Level 7+

4:30-6:00pm Intermediate Levels 5 & 6

About Kelly Ireland

Kelly Ireland is a dancer, choreographer, and dance educator originally from Slippery Rock, PA and is now living and working in New York City. She attended Florida State University beginning in 2014 where she performed the works of choreographers including Gwen Welliver and Rick McCullough, assisted the work of MFA candidate Heather Boni, and choreographed her own work within the School of Dance. Ireland studied abroad in France with the school of Dance and studied abroad in Switzerland with the School of Hospitality and spent a year dancing in the FSU High Flying Circus. She graduated with her BFA in Dance and a minor in Hospitality in the Fall of 2016.

Upon graduation she taught at local studios in her spare time before moving back to Florida to pursue an internship within the hospitality field. A year ago, she moved to New York City to continue pursuing a career in dance where she has been taking class, assistant teaching, and interning for Artichoke Dance Company. She is spending several months this fall traveling to different cities across the United States conducting research and generating choreography for future projects of her own while teaching at studios in Pennsylvania, Florida, Michigan, Colorado, Oregon, and beyond.

Canyon Concert Ballet is excited to partner with Larimer Chorale for their 42nd season opener, Carmina Burana! The Chorale will be performing the scenic cantata for its 42nd season opener on Saturday, October 20, at 7:30 at the Lincoln Center in Fort Collins. Along with the 130 voices of the chorus and three guest soloists, the performance will feature Canyon Concert Ballet company dancers and the Centennial Children’s Chorus. The local collaboration will give audiences the rare opportunity of experiencing the work as Carl Orff had intended, a dazzling presentation of music and movement in telling stories on subjects ranging from drinking, gambling, changes in fortune, gluttony, lust, love, nature and the inevitable cycle of life that brings rebirth each year.

From the opening bars, many in the audience will recognize “O Fortuna,” music that continues to be used often in popular culture venues – films, athletic competitions, advertising, social media. But it will be few in the audience who will have ever seen the piece performed combining music, poetry and dance together to create a total effect as this performance will do. The powerful, mesmerizing and rhythmic work is based on secular – and carnal – 13th Century poetry and texts, in which ancient Latin mixes with Middle High German and Old Provençal French.

Our talented dancers from the CCB company will interpret the poems and stories into movement under the direction of our fabulous artistic director and choreographer, Alicia Laumann. The Chorale and the dancers will be accompanied by Alice Crawford and Paul Falk on two grand pianos with percussion provided by the University of Northern Colorado Percussion Ensemble under the direction of Mike Truesdell. The voices of the Centennial Children’s Chorus, Sheri McKelfresh, artistic director, will complete this regional collaboration of performing arts groups.

The Larimer Chorale will also be singing three inspired motets by Johannes Brahms, Fest- und Gedenksprüche Op 109 (Festival and Commemoration Sentences).

Tickets are available at the Lincoln Center Box Office at 970-221-6730 or on-line at www.lctix.com.

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